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019 _a(OCoLC)984688352
020 _a9780691090535
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020 _a9781400825257
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024 7 _a10.1515/9781400825257
_2doi
035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400825257
035 _a(DE-B1597)446429
035 _a(OCoLC)979629192
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
_cDE-B1597
_erda
072 7 _aHIS022000
_2bisacsh
082 0 4 _a892.409
_a892.4120938296
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aEinbinder, Susan L.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aBeautiful Death :
_bJewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France /
_cSusan L. Einbinder.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2002]
264 4 _c©2002
300 _a1 online resource (232 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
_bPDF
_2rda
490 0 _aJews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World ;
_v8
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tINTRODUCTION: The Medieval Poetry of Jewish Martyrdom --
_tONE. Faith and Fury: Medieval Jewish Martyrological Poetry and Resistance to Conversion --
_tTWO. “The Fire Does Not Burn”: The Emergence of a Martyrological Motif --
_tTHREE. Burning Jewish Books --
_tFOUR. Wheels within Wheels: Literature, History, and Methodology --
_tFIVE. Une Bele Qedushah: Troyes 1288 --
_tSIX. Jonathan and His Magic Book: Paris 1290 --
_tEpilogue --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
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520 _aWhen Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary commemoration of the victims, Jewish martyrology followed. Beautiful Death examines the evolution of a long-neglected corpus of Hebrew poetry, the laments reflecting the specific conditions of Jewish life in northern France. The poems offer insight into everyday life and into the ways medieval French Jews responded to persecution. They also suggest that poetry was used to encourage resistance to intensifying pressures to convert. The educated Jewish elite in northern France was highly acculturated. Their poetry--particularly that emerging from the innovative Tosafist schools--reflects their engagement with the vernacular renaissance unfolding around them, as well as conscious and unconscious absorption of Christian popular beliefs and hagiographical conventions. At the same time, their extraordinary poems signal an increasingly harsh repudiation of Christianity's sacred symbols and beliefs. They reveal a complex relationship to Christian culture as Jews internalized elements of medieval culture even while expressing a powerful revulsion against the forms and beliefs of Christian life. This gracefully written study crosses traditional boundaries of history and literature and of Jewish and general medieval scholarship. Focusing on specific incidents of persecution and the literary commemorations they produced, it offers unique insights into the historical conditions in which these poems were written and performed.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aHebrew literature, Medieval
_zFrance, Northern
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aJews
_xPersecutions
_zFrance, Northern.
650 0 _aJews
_zFrance, Northern
_xHistory
_yTo 1500.
650 0 _aJudaism
_zFrance, Northern
_xHistory
_yTo 1500.
650 0 _aLiterature.
650 0 _aMartyrdom in literature.
650 0 _aMartyrdom
_xJudaism.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Jewish.
_2bisacsh
653 _aAbraham ibn Ezra.
653 _aAllusion.
653 _aApostasy.
653 _aAshkenaz.
653 _aBlood libel.
653 _aBook burning.
653 _aBook of Ezekiel.
653 _aBooks of Kings.
653 _aChristian literature.
653 _aChristianity.
653 _aConversion to Christianity.
653 _aConversion to Judaism.
653 _aCrusades.
653 _aDefection.
653 _aDesecration.
653 _aDesperation (novel).
653 _aElohim.
653 _aEmeritus.
653 _aExegesis.
653 _aEzekiel.
653 _aFirst Crusade.
653 _aGershom.
653 _aGod.
653 _aHagigah.
653 _aHagiography.
653 _aHalevi.
653 _aHarassment.
653 _aHazzan.
653 _aHebrew Bible.
653 _aHebrew language.
653 _aHeresy.
653 _aHigh Middle Ages.
653 _aHistorian.
653 _aHost desecration.
653 _aHumiliation.
653 _aIllustration.
653 _aIn Death.
653 _aIncorruptibility.
653 _aIsraelites.
653 _aJewish identity.
653 _aJewish studies.
653 _aJews.
653 _aJudaism.
653 _aKohen.
653 _aLament.
653 _aLamentations Rabbah.
653 _aLaments (Kochanowski).
653 _aLibation.
653 _aLiterature.
653 _aMaimonides.
653 _aMartyr.
653 _aMartyrology.
653 _aMedieval Hebrew.
653 _aMeir of Rothenburg.
653 _aMiddle Ages.
653 _aMishnah.
653 _aNahmanides.
653 _aNames of God in Judaism.
653 _aNarrative.
653 _aOld French.
653 _aPenitential.
653 _aPersecution.
653 _aPiyyut.
653 _aPoetry.
653 _aPolemic.
653 _aPrinceton University.
653 _aProse.
653 _aPsalms.
653 _aPyre.
653 _aQuatrain.
653 _aRabbi.
653 _aRabbinic literature.
653 _aRashbam.
653 _aRashi.
653 _aRelic.
653 _aReligious text.
653 _aResponsa.
653 _aRighteousness.
653 _aSecond Crusade.
653 _aSefer (Hebrew).
653 _aSefer Hasidim.
653 _aSimhah.
653 _aSoloveitchik.
653 _aStanza.
653 _aSuffering.
653 _aSuggestion.
653 _aTalmud.
653 _aTefillin.
653 _aTen Martyrs.
653 _aThe Other Hand.
653 _aThe Song of Roland.
653 _aTorah scroll.
653 _aTorah.
653 _aTreatise.
653 _aTroyes.
653 _aV.
653 _aWriter.
653 _aWriting.
653 _aYechiel of Paris.
653 _aYom Tov of Joigny.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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